Sealing device for bottles.



PATENTED MAR. 20, 190 6. 0. w. GARDELL & s. T. BERGSTRUMV SEALING DEVICE FOR BOTTLES.

APPLICATION FILED mm: 8.1905.

. ence being had to the accompanying draw- 'IUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN.

SEALl NG DEVICE FOR BOTTLES To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OLOF WAHLFRID CAR- DELL and SvEN THEODOR BER sTRoM, subjects of the King of Sweden and Norway, residing at Gothenburg, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sealing Devices for Bottles; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled invthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The present invention relates to such a sealing device for bottles in which the sealing part consists of a spherical body or ball pressing against the bottle-mouth, a tighteningdisk being placed between said spherical body or ball and the bottle-mouth.

The invention comprises especially the arrangement by which the spherical body or ball is pressed down to sealing. position.

Fi ure 1 on the annexed drawings shows the evice in vertical section, and Fig. 2 in front view.

Accordin to Fig.1, a is a disk, of cork or the like, of imensions sufliciently larger than the bottle-mouth. The disk is laid on loose, so that it completely covers the bottle-mouth. The sphere or ball I) is then placed upon the disk and pressed down thereon. The pressing down is accomplished by reason of the fact that the ball is eccentrically fastened to Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. June 8, 1905. Serial No. 264,359-

Patented March 20, 1906.

a strap 0, which is pivoted on a ring d, placed around the bottle-neck. The ball I) is turned by means of a handle e, which in the sealing position. is turned downward along the bottle-neck. The eccentrically turnable ball is in the sealing position turned in such a manner that it presses downward on the disk a, pressing it all around tight againstthe bottle edge. The dotted lines in Fig. 1 illustrate how the ball 6-, with the handle 6, is turned upward, so that the disk a may be removed when the bottle is tobe opened. If the bottie-mouth is cut so that the ball fits exactly In testimony that we claim the foregoing I as our invention we have signed our names in presence of two. subscribing witnesses.

OLOF WAHLFR-Il) CARDELL.

SVEN THEODOR BERGSTRilM.

Wltnessesi AND. W. METTLEIN, N. J. BERG. 

